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Hopes for the New Year – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:10:03 +0000

As 2010 draws to a close, I’m looking ahead. Here are some of my hopes for the LGBT community in 2011, along with a few predictions. I hope next year the Pope will reveal a new attitude toward gays. I predict he won’t. Now for a bolder prediction concerning Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, [...]

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The Dinah Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary Milestone: Raising The DINAH’STY to a Historical Zenith!

OIA Staff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:01:35 +0000

For all lesbians, springs means one thing: The Dinah! Ladies across the nation and around the world rush, as early as November, to get their bodies in shape, buy their bikinis, select their sexy soiree accoutrements, and book their MUST ATTEND annual trip to Club Skirts Presents The Dinah (www.TheDinah.com) Celebrating the milestone 20th Anniversary [...]

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Anti-Gay Groups Asked To Prove How Gay Marriage Threatens Traditional Unions

OIA Staff — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:29:09 +0000

A judge presiding over a legal challenge to California’s gay marriage ban has asked anti-gay groups to prove how it affects heterosexual marriage. Gay marriage was legalized in California in 2008 but was banned several months later by the voter initiative Proposition 8. Two unmarried couples have launched a lawsuit over the ban, claiming it [...]

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Keeping The Young Folks Apart – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:39:33 +0000

In his New York Times Magazine column called “The Ethicist,” Randy Cohen recently tackled a modern dilemma. A mother wrote in to say that her daughter, in her late 20s, has a same-sex partner, a fact known to most of the large Catholic family. But the writer’s in-laws, the lesbian’s grandparents, don’t know, and the rule [...]

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American Primitive

OIA Staff — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:09:00 +0000

1973, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Harry Goodhart, the British widower father, has come to Cape Cod to begin a new business and begin a new life where he can be accepted and live the life he wants. Recently widowed, he struggles to withhold a secret from his two teenage daughters that risks tearing their family apart. [...]

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The Big Lie: Marriage and “Tradition”

OIA Staff — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:44:20 +0000

Not only does DOMA clearly discriminate against same-sex couples and families headed by same-sex couples, but your Justice Department is helping it move forward on a lie: that two-partner, heterosexual marriage is the “traditional and universally recognized form of marriage.” That lie is based on a bigger lie that one often hears touted by religious [...]

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